Improvement in pulley-blocks



A. BISCHOF-F. PULLEY-BLDCKS.

No. 194,326. Patented Aug. 21,1877..

" BY M ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES ANTON BISOHOFF, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGN FREDERICK BURGER, OF SAME IMPROVEMEN-TIN Specification forming part of Letters Pate To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, ANTON BISCHOFF, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Pulley-Block, of which the following is a specification:

1n the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 re presents a vertical transverse section of my improved pulley-block for clothes-lines, and Fig. 2 an exterior View of one of the cheeks of the block.

- Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The invention is intended to furnish an improved pulley-block for clothes-lines, by which the annoying wedging in of the lines between pulley and check of block is fully avoided and a reliably-working pulley-block obtained; and the invention consists of a pulley-block having cheeks with interior circular recesses fitting over the rims or flanges of the pulleys.

In the drawing, A represents the cheeks of my improved pulley-block, which are connected in any approved manner, so as to form a strong and substantial block. The pulley B circular recesses at the i cheeks, flanges clothes-lines, substantially as specifie PATENT OFFICE.

OR TO HIMSELF AND PLACE.

PULLEV-BLOCKS.

revolves on a fixed shaft, 0, and projects, by its flanges or rims, into circular recesses a at the inner sides of the cheeks, which recesses extend in such a manner around the pulley that any possibility of wedging in the clothesline between block and pulley is entirely avoided.

The pulley the additional of the cheeks, serious and annoying objections to the various pulley-blocks now in use.

Having thus fully described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A pulley-block for clothes-lines, made with nner faces of the the recesses extending around the of the pulley to prevent wedging of d. ANTON BISUHOFF.

space formed by the recesses Witnesses PAUL GoEPEL, O. SEDGWIGK.

plays freely and easily within and overcomes one of the most 

